Those who give up liberty for security soon have neither. Do not throw away your right to defend yourself, or in the case of liberals: the rights of others to protect you, under the misguided notion that you will be safer when only the criminals will be armed. Understand the wisdom of the founding fathers who made it the law of the land that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It is the mentally disturbed who need to be registered and confined.

I had not seen the news that it was a fight over a video game- initial reports were that it was accidental discharge.

But, as you point out, simply more tragic addition to the overwhelming statistics that indicate a gun in the home is vastly more likely to be used in anger or in suicide than it is to be used in self defense.

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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.

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James Rowen, a writer and consultant, has worked for newspapers, and as the senior Mayoral staffer, in Madison and Milwaukee, WI. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007. Posts run also at various news sites, including The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Purple Wisconsin."